Thursday, March 1, 2007

In Deal of West Side. Clarence G. Feltner Figured in $2,000,000 Apartment Sale. Clarence G. Feltner was associated as broker with Leverett P. Cady in the sale on Tuesday of two West Side apartment buildings for a reported price of about $2,000,000.

Miss Jean D. Antell Bride in Brooklyn of Robert Alan Feltner, an Attorney. Miss Jean Dortothy Antell was married to Robert Alan Feltner yesterday afternoon in the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn. ... Her husband was graduated from Harvard College and the Harvard Law School. He is with the law firm of Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy here.

John George Feltner (1851-1940) and Dorothea Schmaus (1848-1936) and their children around 1893. Bottom row from left to right are: Alma Feltner (1883-1940) who will marry Edwin Joseph O'Malley (1882-1955); Rosamund Feltner (1880-1952), aka Rose Feltner who will marry Matthew J. Donovan on April 24, 1904 in New York City;John George Feltner (1851-1940) who is holding Clarence G. Feltner (1891-1960) who will marry Helen X on March 6, 1915 in Manhattan; and Dorothy Feltner (1889-1948) who will marry James T. Connors. Back row from left to right are: Robert H. Feltner (1886-1966); Augusta F. Feltner (1879-1954) who will never marry; Anna M. Feltner (1877-c1955) who will marry Melvin J. Yates on December 31, 1907 in the Bronx; and George Henry Feltner (1884-1958) who will marry Minnie L. Barmore (1884-?) on June 12, 1907 in Brooklyn. The image may have been taken by Dorothea Schmaus (1848-1936) who is not present in the photo.

Kohlman - Wolfe C. of Hackensack, formerly of Teaneck, New Jersey. Husband of Kathryn (nee Hauser), father of Clement and Eleanor, grandfather of Jeffrey and Lynn. Services will be held at Gutterman-Musicant-Kreizman, corner of Passaic and Park Streets, Hackensack, New Jersey on Friday, November 21, 1975 at 1 p.m.

E. J. O'Malley Dies; Led City Markets. Commissioner Under Hylan Advocated Large Centers for Food Distribution. Edwin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Markets under Mayor John F. Hylan, died of a heart attack Friday night at his home, 425 East Seventy-second Street. He was 69 years old. He was a long-time advocate of huge food-receiving and distribution centers in the city. Many officials and civic leaders during the first quarter of the century shared his belief in the desirability of such centers as a means of achieving greater efficiency in food handling and reducing food prices. Mr. O'Malley was named by Mayor Hylan Deputy Commissioner of Markets, under Commissioner Jonathan P. Daly, on March 11, 1918. On October 14, 1919, Commissioner Day removed Mr. O'Malley for alleged profiteering in the sale of Army foodstuffs. Mayor Hylan then placed Mr. O'Malley in the Department of Charities and two months later on December 3, removed Mr. Day and gave the post to Mr. O'Malley. He remained, though frequently criticized by various groups, until the administration of Mayor J. Walker began in 1926. A founder and director of the Grand Street Boys Club, he was a life member of the Elks Lodge, Number 878, a past president of the Hollis (Queens) Civic Association, a member of the Woodhaven (Queens) Volunteer Exempt Fireman's Association and the last chief of the Hollis Volunteer Fire Department. His first wife, the former Alma Feltner, died in 1940. He leaves his second wife, Mrs. Constance O'Malley; a son, Walter F. O'Malley of Amityville, Long Island, who is president of the Brooklyn Dodgers; five brothers, two sisters and two grandchildren.

Kohlman - Ralph, of 60 Crane Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey, formerly of Jersey City, New Jersey, on June 2, 1957, beloved husband of the late Ada Auugusta (nee Freudenberg), brother of Mrs. Sadie Casper, Mrs. Pauline Franklin, Wolfe C. Kohlman and the late Carrie and Mrs. Lillian Moos. Relatives and friends, also members of the Rising Star Lodge, number 109, Free and Accepted Masons, are invited to attend Masonic funeral service at the Otto Mack Funeral Home, corner Central Avenue and Hutton Street, Jersey City, New Jersey, Tuesday, June 4 at ... p.m. Religious service wednesday at 3 p.m. Internment East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Delewanna, New Jersey.

Source: New York Times; June 4, 1957, Tuesday; and June 5, 1957, Wednesday

On March 1, 2006 I called Jeffrey Kohlman in Alpharetta, Georgia and his wife answered the telephone. I started to tell her the new information I had found on Celia and she said: "I am not interested in this and neither is Jeffrey, so I am going to pass on this one."

Lynn Kohlman Engaged. Teaneck, New Jersey, April 11, 1968. Mr. and Mrs. Clement Kohlman have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Lynn Kohlman, to Arnold LaGuardia, who is serving with the Army at Fort Lee, Virginia. He is the son of Mrs. Attilo LaGuardia of Brooklyn and the late Dr. La Guardia.